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My favorite part was that one of the early vibrator machines, large and designed for doctor's offices, was called "The Chattanooga". The. best. name. ever. for an orgasm device.
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The one that blows me away is "Desertion by husband." Why does that conclude that SHE is insane? (Actually, she might be happy as a clam.)
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I cannot recommend this book enough for the history of the vibrator: Maines, Rachel. (1999). The technology of orgasm : “hysteria,” the vibrator, and women’s sexual satisfaction. Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
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It was the worst of times, it was the even worster of times
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I'm actually running an air purifier so my smoke alarms won't go off. That's how thick it is.
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T.C. Aurelius
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Watching the British election returns I feel compelled to point out that the 650 person House of Commons represents 67 million people and the 435 person House of Representatives in the United States represents 333 million. Replace the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929. We deserve representation.
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There's also a book of a ancient Roman recipes, with very limited ingredients. No pasta, no tomato, no rice. Basically olives, sea food, rye, some wild wheat, various greens, and goat cheese. press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago...
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Timothy Burke
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if Biden announced that he was ordering the IRS to end all audits of people making less than $100,000 and ordering audits of all billionaires that would be something he could do
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I actually saw a copy of this cookbook from 1942 that gave recipes for Italian housewives. It is an amazing example of "do more with less" and included gathering greens in vacant lots, using old bread to create a broth. www.vallardi.it/catalogo/sch...
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Possible sabotage from the headline writers' union at the NY Times?
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Yet I thought she was dynamite as a senator. Her questioning in hearings was a joy to see - informed, on point, and beating the pants off the opposition.
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two words: Mitch McConnell
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Something else: all those digital versions of journals and magazines online and in databases have the *articles* but are not cover-to-cover. Many don't have letters to the editor, and nearly all do not have ads. In terms of future study of these times, that's an incomplete picture.
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Jon Becker
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What if, for the good of the country, the NYT editorial board stepped aside and let serious people do that work?
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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“The justices accidentally, repeatedly referenced laughing gas in a disastrous ruling before declaring that judges know better than agency regulators” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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gamera obscura
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I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.
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Adam Bonin
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The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it right.
x.com/adambonin/st...
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Ian Boudreau
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What a great time to be trapped in outer space
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Getting your medical advice from the Supremes is as bad as getting it from Gwyneth Paltrow. Then again, if Alito and Thomas decided to put Goop eggs up their butts, I'd probably watch.
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Another win for libraries.
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Prison which they are wholly convinced they will never be in, then one day ... they will be so very indignant, saying: "I didn't mean me!" Oh, hi, SBF.
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OMG - the library's moniker is HTML! How perfect is that?
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You can imagine how much the employees like this system. And, yes, this will be an excuse to close stores because they aren't "earning." Does anyone at these companies understand what the problem is? It's obvious to the (former) customers.
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Popehat
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Two West Virginia parents charged with attempting to teach history in Florida
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Saavik Ford
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TIL the Bank of Canada once had to ask ppl to stop Spocking Fives. I, otoh, would like to request that y’all keep it up.
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Think: "Lockerbie bombing" - a good example of the "mule" not knowing what she carried.
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Timothy Burke
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i feel like "access to health care for women" should be a higher priority here
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We need a Rainbow book for anyone on the LGBTQ+ spectrum, analogous to the famed Green Book, and another one for pregnant women - places where they mustn't have a pregnancy-related medical need. Not sure what the color should be for the latter. Is uterus a color?
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Slightly orthogonal but there is the New Deal Map and Database for anyone who wants to look at things and admire the extent of that effort:
livingnewdeal.org/map/
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sarah
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I’m gonna be honest and maybe I’m jaded but all this talk of the library being “magical” sometimes rubs me the wrong way. Like it isn’t magic. It’s underpaid workers doing all this shit for you. It isn’t someone waving a wand and shit gets done. Idk. I’m just irritable today.
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OK, different device. The book is about lawns in Los Angeles going feral until they cover and destroy the whole planet. 1947! www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24246
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The west coast version of that is the 1947 eco disaster book Greener Than You Think. Available at project Gutenberg. (Can’t paste link in the app 😐)
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Preservation, supposedly. Plus they may try to grow a tree from the pits, so they would be a recreation of GW's actual cherry tree of myth.
www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024...
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Shannon Mattern
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I, too, love the Internet Archive and am 😡 by the lawsuit, but I wish journalists would talk to Library librarians abt their commonalities with and differences from IA — and about how they're navigating a 🌎 in which they (unfortunately) license, rather than own, much of their collection.
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GIVE🐾 THE🐾 DOG🐾 THE🐾 PIE🐾 JOHN🐾🐾
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David Noble's history of science "World Without Women" is absolutely apt here, but in particular one should read his "Religion of Technology". It's not only about women who don't talk back, it's about the ideal of a world without human women. Beyond handmaids.
search.worldcat.org/35990225
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Blue Heron Farm
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They're going to rule 6-3 that the bitch deserved it
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Hmmm. Missing the obvious one ("drop dead"). I guess that would take it up to 11.
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I don't understand why he can't raise his arm higher than that. He does this gesture a lot, and the pseudo-dancing one, but his arm stays oddly low. Is it the suit jacket that won't let it go higher?
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It makes sense, and is undoubtedly a best practice, but I didn’t expect to see it on Google Maps.
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Marc N Cunat
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Alito on his wife: “She makes her own decisions, and I have always respected her right to do so.” Is this the same guy who wrote the Dobbs decision ?
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really, how many Martha Mitchell's can there be?
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_... for those too young to remember, or so old you have forgotten)
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R. Eric VanNewkirk
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A depressing thing about our current predicament is that the Founders were perfectly familiar with grifters, partisans, self-dealers, and dishonorable men and loaded the Constitution with mechanisms to keep them away from public office, none of which work under our current political system.
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But it's GO regardless of what goes in. AI turns everything to garbage out, taking centuries of excellence and flattening it down to statistical probabilities. Above all it ignores that language is a growing organism and WE grow it. No AI would have invented phat or TGIF with the meanings they have
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(d) For purposes of this section, a use of a name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness in connection with any news, public affairs, or sports broadcast or account, or any political campaign, shall not constitute a use for which consent is required under subdivision (a).
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3344. (a) Any person who knowingly uses another’s name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness, in any manner, on or in products, merchandise, or goods, or for purposes of advertising or selling ....
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It's California 3344 and it is not truly monopolistic; it's mainly about use for advertising or other commercial gain; other uses are allowed. The problem is that it pre-dates deep fakes/AI so when the law says "voice" or "image" it is now unclear what that means.
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I can't, I just can't. The photos of hundreds of trucks filled with life-saving aid unable to enter Gaza bring me to despair. There is little that is more cruel than purposely using starvation to kill people - worse when so many are children. The aid is there, waiting to deliver. How can they?
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona...
California's approach is particularly strong thanks to being the home of Hollywood. Most of us don't have to worry about it but deep fakes (whether AI or other tech) are serious when you are the brand.
I'd like to hear your "not good policy" thoughts.
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I was visiting my teen-age pen pal in Oxford (UK) (1967); we passed an old guy dressed in black walking with a cane & my friend said: "hello, don Tolkien" and then told me -"He's my English teacher's father and always walks after lunch." I said: "JRR?!" Yep, but just an old guy taking a walk.
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